Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to Golang Go (CVE-2023-29409)

Summary

IBM Event Streams is affected by Golang Go vulnerability (CVE-2023-29409)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-29409
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw. By persuading a victim to use a specially crafted certificate with large RSA keys, an remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262400 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.2.3 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None